Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Using a storage engine without UTXO-index

From: Bram Cohen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 11:39:18 -0700

Expanding on this question a bit, it's optimized for parallel access, but
hard drive access isn't parallel and memory accesses are very fast, so
shouldn't the target of optimization be about cramming as much as possible
in memory and minimizing disk accesses?

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Tomas via bitcoin-dev
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >As this
> > solution, reversing the costs of outputs and inputs, seems to have
> > excellent performance characteristics (as shown in the test results),
> > updates to the protocol addressing the UTXO growth, might not be worth
> > considering *protocol improvements*
>
> I'm still lost on this-- AFAICT your proposals long term resource
> requirements are directly proportional to the amount of unspent output
> data, which grows over time at some fraction of the total transaction
> volume (plus the rate of spending which is more or less a constant).
>
> Can you help out my understanding here?
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